Man, that sucks, sorry to hear that. I most sincerely hope the surgery will improve your condition!

I wasn't sure whether you were joking or not, but it was fun anyway. :-)

BTW, it's one thing to parse it wrong on /., as you did, but an entirely different thing to actually COME to Austria, as a tourist, and then - with no joking - ask where all the kangaroos happen to be. I always thought such tourist would belong to a kind of an urban legend until I got a summer job as a front desk manager in a small hotel in Vienna. Boy, were I in for a surprise!!! :-)

Have a nice day mate, and no hard feelings. I like you US guys, especially since you installed your new president (actually, since you removed the old one, ok).

Hahaha, I am NOT Australian, man... AUSTRIA != AUSTRALIA, therefore no kangaroos here. And no shrimp bbq neither, unfortunately. Usually, we put up with grilling sausages and... stuff.

Now, for that guy calling me Troll - you see _now_ what I was talking about?

Let me guess, you are an US american? :-)

OK, let me try to avoid that scenario: NO KANGAROOS IN AUSTRIA

Oh, great, thank you very much for planting this disgusting picture in my head where it will probably remain for the weeks to come! Gotta go over to redtube or youporn or redporn or puretna to get my brain washed with better pictures.

Now that I previewed this post, I'm a bit ashamed of my it...

$ sudo cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
[sudo] password for IllForgetMyNickSoonAnyway:
cat: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted


Great, your sig doesn't even work! :-)

Eeeeeuwwww... :-P

Well, once upon a time, a certain republican candidate was voted against even though his opponent had NO pulse whatsoever... :-)

You realize it will be all-men crew, do you? :-)

Now, why in the world is this modded as "troll"?

In Europe, the most medical doctors scoff at the notion of taking medicine "just in case", "even" if it's an aspirin. If there is no medical reason to apply medications to your body, then DON'T DO IT. That is the widely spread and accepted attitude.

Now, of course you can choose not to believe MDs and rather to design your own medication programs instead, but you should not mod a person down saying this would be a dangerous and a stupid thing to do. Disagree != Troll!

Our glorious IT department, guys who just happen to jump to ANYTHING Microsoft releases, moved our intranet to Sharepoint some 6-7 months ago. We are a 1000 man high tech company, producing our own safety critical hardware and software used in civilian and military applications. We have a full-time, large IT department, so we are not just a mom&dad shop who don't know how to turn on the computer.

Here is our experience with Sharepoint:

- It's SLOW AS HELL. It is mind-blowingly, unbelievably slow. I have NEVER seen such a slow system in my life!
- The search function is un-useable, except for poking fun at results. Rating hits in some xls Documents higher than hits on wiki pages - COME ON, MICROSOFT, EVEN YOU CAN'T BE THAT STUPID!
- Collaboration? Yeah, right - 2 guys from my department worked with 2 other guys in 2 other departments on a document. After 3 days, the damn thing just swallowed the document! No way to roll back, no way to find it (IT also gave up after a few hours of search). It's GONE!
- The WIKI functionality (editor) is awful. Just awful. It changes the spacing between lines at its' liking. No way to fix it, short of turning to HTML mode and repairing it manually, just to see it f*** up again after the next update!

I could go on forever, but I guess you get the picture. MS sure does have some fine products, although I despise their business practice. Sharepoint, however, is NOT one of those fine ones!

OK, I calmed down. Now I go back to work... :-)

Hey, wait, actually it was a PRO CLIO article... :-D

French have some remarkable technology and engineering achievements to show off. Heard about Airbus? French cars are also WAY better than their image.

No need to get all upset about this, boy. Just keep civil, you'll get more audience.

Now, sorry for pointing out the obvious, but extrapolating the future advances in the area of climate (or "sea level") control from the past advances in computer technology is... not very scientific of you. Since the dawn of men, we moved not one little step towards climate control (I don't count shooting the clouds in order to lower the danger of a hailstorm as "climate control"). If you allow, I'd not just bet the future on "well, some day, a smart person will figure out how to fix it, so who cares" approach.